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• In Jordan, 'house of safety' offers hope and freedom to at-risk women
• A golden lesson from the 2008 financial crisis
• Syria’s next battle: the jockeying for influence by outside powers
• Putin's war games send signal to West, but Russia-China alliance unlikely

In Jordan, 'house of safety' offers hope and freedom to at-risk women Posted: 14 Sep 2018 12:10 PM PDT Dar Amneh, literally the "house of safety," is a unique joint project by civil society groups and the Jordanian government to help women at the risk of violence from their own families build new lives. In Jordan, some two dozen women are killed each year in so-called "honor" crimes, when a family member murders a female relative to clear the family name of a perceived stigma, such as pregnancy out of wedlock or purported promiscuity.

A golden lesson from the 2008 financial crisis Posted: 14 Sep 2018 11:19 AM PDT Ten years ago on Sept. 15, the financial firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, triggering the worst global recession in decades. Largely unnoticed on this 10th anniversary, however, is the fact that it also awakened an improved culture of prudence in many financial firms as well as other companies. While financial crises are hardly new, the job of "risk manager" was invented only about two decades ago.

Syria’s next battle: the jockeying for influence by outside powers Posted: 14 Sep 2018 11:02 AM PDT Only two grisly questions remain in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's fight against his civil war rivals: how long before the last major armed resistance, in the northwestern province of Idlib, is crushed; and how many of the estimated three million civilians there will escape.

Putin's war games send signal to West, but Russia-China alliance unlikely Posted: 14 Sep 2018 08:32 AM PDT The exercises, kicked off this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a summit in Vladivostok, have led some Russian commentators to suggest hopefully – echoed, fearfully, by some in the West – that the two giants might be edging toward a full-blown military alliance. The war games include Chinese troops working with Russians, and a small contingent of Mongolians, in a multi-nation war scenario.

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